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Pardus has a short term rolling release, and an LTS. The long term supported version is released every 3 years, and supported for 4 years.

OS History

Pardus 2007.3 included the Linux 2.6.18 kernel, the OpenOffice.org office suite, internet tools (browser, e-mail, instant messaging, etc.), multimedia and graphics tools (video player, music player, etc.), games, and many other applications. COMAR is the configuration manager developed in-house, and Tasma is the custom KDE system configuration tool.

The Pardus 2008.1 Installation CD included the Linux 2.6.25.16 kernel, the OpenOffice.org office suite, internet tools (browser, e-mail, instant messaging, etc.), multimedia and graphics tools (video player, music player, etc.), games, and many other applications. COMAR is the configuration manager developed in-house, and Tasma is the custom KDE system configuration tool. KDE has been updated to 3.5.10, along with other important infrastructure components: Python 2.5, Java 6, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1.

Pardus 2009 included the 2.6.30.1 kernel. Pardus 2009 used the KDE 4 desktop environment and included OpenOffice 3.1, Python 2.6.2, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Gimp 2.6.6 and also applications like Kontact, Kopete, Kaffeine, k3b and Amarok. Applications could be easily updated to their newest versions over the internet with the Pisi package management tool. Pardus 2009 included advanced network manager tools and was compatible with most of the latest hardware. PiSi package management

Some features of PiSi include:* Uses the LZMA Compression Algorithm* Written in Python* Package sources are written in XML and Python* Database access implemented with Berkeley DB* Integrates low-level and high-level package operations (dependency resolution)* Framework approach to build applications and tools upon* Beginning with Pardus 2009, delta packages are on by default.